Was in a really bad rock cover band at 16. Still love to play, but don't play often enough....therapy!

I have a good ear - listened to Tull and Deep Purple albums and just tried to copy all of the lead solos.

When I started listening to my main jazz guitar hero Pat Metheny I pretty much decided to give up....he is so, so good!

My fingers are too short for a classical-width guitar neck and too fat for the narrower steel string neck. Piano keys, on the other hand, are just the right size for my fingers. I can usually hit just the one I'm shooting for.

If you want to check out improvising, look up Forrest Kinney's series.

Whatever happens, have fun !

I hadn't played since college but my Church started a band and asked all former players to show. It took two days to clean the horn. (It's still a bad memory.)

The chops came back sooner than I would have thought. I started playing in a community band a year later and have been playing for years.

I think I'm now a better player than I was in college - mind you still not particularly good, but I keep up. Now playing at Church and the community band is what I do to maintain what's left of my sanity.

I play multiple styles, and I'm a Legacy Artist with the state of Minnesota. I tour playing 19th-century banjo styles and Victorian music in venues ranging from libraries to universities. I even play replica banjos from the period. Of course, I do the bluegrass thing too.

I play oldtime banjo (mostly clawhammer, though I'm starting to learn the various 2 and 3 finger styles as well). Like Scruggs-style too, but don't practice it much, since it's much more suited to a band than solo, and I don't really have the time or inclination to play in a band.

Can you give me some essential listening for the classic banjo style?

Go to youtube and look up Tim Twiss, he plays exclusively in the nineteenth century banjo style and even plays some of the parlor songs from the period.

I played this one on my solid wood banjo I use in the shows.

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My mother tried to teach us piano but it was all over when I discovered ZZ TOP.

But that didn't work out at all. You just can't play ragtime or jazz on the accordion! Not convincingly, anyway.

...but I play guitar in the shower. It's tough on the guitars but everyone in the house says that's where it sounds best. That reminds me-anyone selling a dry guitar?

Only acoustic in the shower never electric friend.

...for about 33 years, now.

Funny thing happened while I was playing the electric unplugged for the last ten or so years: My vibrato became really kinda good! I actually have to back off it a little when I'm plugged in. I've always been kind of naturally good at string bending, but with decent vibrato added, I'm turning into a decent slow blues player.

Fun, fun, fun. (And that's really the point anymore.)

My first instrument was the sax. Played from the 4th grade through college. Last time I played was the UF/FSU game 1988. I marched in the band.

Ok fast forward to 2002, when my daughter decided to play the clarinet. We got her horn, and I start playing it. Rememberd almost all the scales. My daughter was pissed. She says, "Mom I thought you played sax! That's my instrument!" And grabbed her horn back. I said yeah, but the fingering is the same, and I had to play the flute and clarinet at times for jazz band, I was lead alto. I also played the oboe. She say, "go back to your guitars!"

I started playing guitar around the 10th grade. Self taught there. Oddly I get paid to play these days.

My son was smart he picked the trumpet. He knew I didn't play brass. He did well with the trumpet. He marched in drum corps, (Boston Crusaders). During his age out year he won the DCI solo competition and is now a music teacher. He got a degree in music performance and education and is the music teacher at Louis Carrol Elementary School in Merritt Island. I was surprised he actually got a job in music without having to be a waiter first. Normally if you are musician or actor, being a waiter is a prerequisite.

Currently I have probably too many interments. A classical guitar (my primary guitar), a martin, a 12 string taylor (that thing is sweet!), an electric, a 5 string bass, a mandolin, a banjo, a ukulele, many harmonicas, several recorders, and my sax with the big gator sticker on it.

I built a kit folk harp, which I never was able to play. It decorates one corner of the living room now.

Other than that and my new piano, I have a genuine Irish tin whistle, which I also can't play! You'd think anyone could play a tin whistle. Not so!

Oh I can find the C and F. Hack my way through chop sticks and play the solo from I Ran by Flock of Seagulls. And trust me that is NOT an impressive solo.

One thing I can also attest too. Playing my guitar alone is a lot better then watching the orange turd destroy our country.

Enjoy the new piano.

Started piano at 4 and still playing 57 years later.
At 19, after graduating college, I bought a guitar because I wanted an instrument I could carry.
Not sure I really belong on this thread though Bink!
At the clear risk of sounding immodest, I played in regularly working club band (90 - 100 gigs a year) from 1977 to 2005.
I can play some!

(it's strung/tuned like a guitar without the lowest 2 strings). I played with it this year, but have officially resolved to learn to play it in 2018. Then I can carry it around in case a gig breaks out.

Is very relaxing